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The picture shows Water Lettuce (Pistia stratoites). Given Wisconsin's winters, I would expect your rules to be different, but Water Lettuce is illegal in Texas. It is noxiously invasive here. But if I want some for a water garden, I can get it out of a coastal waterway.

The picture shows Water Lettuce (Pistia stratoites). Given Wisconsin's winters, I would expect your rules to be different, but Water Lettuce is illegal in Texas. It is noxiously invasive here. But if I want some for a water garden, I can get it out of a coastal waterway.

I like duckweed. It will eventually cover the pond's surface, but I think it's lovely. Water lettuce is nice but always ends up looking crispy on the edges. The lilies look like a bunch of pac-men running away. And is that Mrs. Pacman in the middle? The bow is very becoming on her. *catcalls*

Oh, say what you will about politics, the election, everything else. Right now, the Nats are in first place in the NL East, and the Redskins pulled off a big upset. Two Washington teams doing well in the same year should make you very, very nervous.

Some recruiter is dangling a $2500/week position in front of my nose, writing an 8-page piece with securities compliance news every week. I like my job, but a 30% boost in pay is nice. And work from home, too. Arrrgh.

At this point I think it's important to reiterate the importance of impeaching President Obama before he's run out of office by the voters.

But to do this, I would also hope that the reasons to reiterate have finally dawned on the resident constitutional scholar, or any other wandering constitutional scholar who might deign to explain the legal implications.

One of my favorite shrubs, Mahonia bealei (Leatherleaf mahonia) is on Tennessee's no-no list. I'm tempted to plant it anyway, but then I drive through acres of kudzu on the way home and change my mind.

Anyone watch Secretary Clinton's and Pres Obama's speeches as they received the bodies of Amb Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty? Hillary impressed. Her words honored the dead and she showed genuine sorrow over their loss. Very presidential, I thought. And guys, I'm not a fan.

The President said all the right words, I guess, but failed to impress. His heart wasn't in it.

Animated the lotus photo. This photo is eminently photoshoppable. Eminently means sticking out. The GIF file has 41 frames, so quite long for a GIF therefore small. I do not care for the result. Not particularly inventive, imaginative, or interesting. That's why you must not look at it.

That concludes the first thing.

The second thing is Jeremy Clarkson bugs the piss out of me. I do not know why. He is not going away. In an effort to understand my enmity I feel for no good reason I looked him up to see if I could like him better. I learned two interesting things that resemble facts -- factoids. Two of them.

His family and himself financed his fees to private schools by making and selling Paddington Bears.

*drums fingers*

I think that worked. He no longer bugs the piss out of me. I guess the thing that was bugging me was where in the fuck does he get all those cars? And now I realize it's probably like Road and Track, you just get involved and bang! there you are.

Apologies for my language but that's how much he bugs xxxxx used to bug me.

RE: Job security -- What's that? If you don't work for the government, there's no such thing.

RE: Pay boost -- It's a different type of writing than I've done for the past 20 years. And they're looking for someone to replace the existing writer who isn't working out. I need to be very sure I can do this.

"The picture shows Water Lettuce (Pistia stratoites). Given Wisconsin's winters, I would expect your rules to be different, but Water Lettuce is illegal in Texas. It is noxiously invasive here. But if I want some for a water garden, I can get it out of a coastal waterway."

Fact: Clipping shears with a spring loaded handle for use in one hand, are called secateurs, pronounced as Cicada in a British accent. Oddly non rhotic, but in this example with a typical intrusive R, okay forget the example, clippers are called secateurs.

In the absence of, or prior to a response from the professor, I'll take a stab at the story. I'm a pro-breast guy, and pro-breast feeding. My wife nursed our 3 children for about 1 year each, sometimes unavoidably in public. I went in to the counterpunch article preparing to agree with the Professor. Her tone, however really turned me off. I thought the initial email from the student reporter was rude and unnecessarily defensive and hostile. I doubt that she could be clueless enough to not know that nursing a child during class would gin up some talk and maybe some controversy, quite apart from whether (in her perfect world), it should.

I'm tired of people making a big deal out of breast feeding, and if public nursing makes some folks uncomfortable, too bad. Between their sensibilities and my kids' well being, that is an easy choice. However, exercising some discretion is pretty easy also. No real reason why this professor could not have done so. I also note that it is fairly easy to pump and store breast milk. Most nursing mothers do this for daycare as well as situations like the professor encountered.

Re: the Exposeing Breasts article. That right there is why I do not enjoy the company of women. The whole essay is a bitchy attack on the student reporter (a woman) who dared to interview her about breastfeeding while lecturing. She made assumptions about the reporter's agenda that were not based on anything other than her fervid imagination.

It actually could have made an interesting article if she had been more gracious. Has anyone ever had a professor breast feed while lecturing? I have breastfed in my office, but never in front of patients or staff. I used to breastfeed while making dinner or doing paperwork at home in the evening, though. Sometimes I even breastfed while eating dinner. My other kids did not like that. They complained it was "gross."

Breastfeeding during a lecture is certainly unusual, but probably not as distracting to the students as a crying sick baby would be. Or a baby that is crawling around putting choking hazards in its mouth and reaching for electric sockets with its wet fingers. That sounds like more of a problem for the professor than her breastfeeding.

"Breastfeeding during a lecture is certainly unusual, but probably not as distracting to the students as a crying sick baby would be. Or a baby that is crawling around putting choking hazards in its mouth and reaching for electric sockets with its wet fingers. That sounds like more of a problem for the professor than her breastfeeding."

No, infant children do not belong in the workplace while actual work is being done by mothers, in such a way that mothers would be compelled to breast feed their children before others.

It's just disruptive, and it isn't professional.

Now, if it's just a one-off thing (baby sitter/childcare called in sick, child is sick, mom has a big project on deadline, etc.), then no big deal.

I really wish this weren’t considered “newsworthy,” but I suppose that’s why a feminist anthropology course is necessary at AU. I had no intention of making a political statement or shocking students. I merely had a sick baby who I couldn’t leave at daycare on the first day of class. It was unfair to leave the job of teaching the first class to my teaching assistant, so I had two choices: cancel class, which would have been disruptive to students (and which could also negatively affect my student evaluations, putting my tenure at risk), or bring the baby to class. I chose to do the latter. As it turned out, the baby got hungry, so I had to feed it during lecture. End of story.

Do you know what's most annoying about the breastfeeding lady? It's the way she talks about what makes her college and workplace a hostile environment.

I'm certain that a great number of people, often in her very own classes, feel that the environment is hostile. But not her and not her favored people.

When ever I encounter someone talking about making an environment safe for diverse people, they mean safe to express some ideas and unsafe to express other ideas. The normal inhibitions dictated by society are hostile, so those are rejected. Certain sort of normative speech are hostile, so they are rejected. And the result may be that some people feel safe, but the result is also that other people, the *right* people, are made uncomfortable and inhibited.

Look how ready she is to jump on a student reporter? Watch what you say, or this lady will get you. And when she does she'll put you in the *necessary* gender indoctrination class where you can learn to be tolerant.

Eagan Jones cut credit rating to AA-. In April, Egan-Jones cuts the U.S. credit rating to "AA" from "AA+" with a negative watch, citing a lack of progress in cutting the mounting federal debt.

Moody's Investors Service currently rates the United States Aaa, Fitch rates the country AAA, and Standard & Poor's rates the country AA-plus. All three of those ratings have a negative outlook.S&P is rumored to have a bond downgrade pending

The media won't cover it that much outside the financials.Not as sexy as a dead Ambassador or pics of Obama and Beyonce together, but far more important.

"We believe in the First Amendment," Obama told CBS’s Steve Kroft during an interview arranged days earlier.

"It is one of the hallmarks of our Constitution that I’m sworn to uphold, and so we are always going to uphold the rights for individuals to speak their mind," he said, according to a transcript narrated by White House spokesman Jay Carney."

At the end of the ceremony today, before they walked away from the podium, it looked to me like Obama wanted to give Hillary a hug and she wouldn't turn to him to allow it. She probably has had a lot of practice at this with Bill.

While walking away, there was contact and a little arm in arm but her body language was stiff and stand-offish. Looked like a lot of tension from Hillary.

Scott said...That CNBC link has a nasty comment thread. I think Bernanke should be fired, but bringing his tribal affiliation into it is just plain wrong.

=============Yes, still the Jews have had a heavy role in the financial collapse and ongoing financial problems. And it is hard to avoid the connection.

I still remember at the peak of the crisis in Oct 2008, that they had summoned witnesses of all the major banks with bad credit on Wednesday for critical Congressional Hearings on bailout moneys and fault. Then had to cancel Hearings Thursday and Friday because all the witnesses , or most of them, had to leave for the Yom Kippur Holiday.

Notice at the Supermarket that they are doing EVERYTHING to hold down food prices, but shoppers should be aware between the drought and high fuel prices, food is expected to go up substantially this fall.

This is in California, where when I read the supermarket notice, I thought 85% of the shoppers were Obamites and if any saw the sign , if they could read it..they probably thought the money they get from Uncle Sugar will have to be jacked up.

Nor toddlers, IMHO. I have always wondered about liability issues regarding children in the workplace. Say my boss brings in her toddler. She turns her back for a minute, and toddler runs out of her office, past my desk. I don't notice because I am deep in a conversation with a pissed off client.

Toddler manages to make it down the hall to our office supply room...and manages to pull a heavy object off the shelf...onto their head causing significant head injury.

Who is liable? Am I liable as the assistant who missed the kid running by and didn't stop them?

I saw a big Cadillac Escalade today with an obama sticker on the rear window. It was one of the big ones that are Suburbans with $40,000 markups. Woman driving it had to be a teacher. Or a diversity consultant.

I managed to arrange my workday to fit in a row after work without having vacation time! We were coming back from a meeting and I left the boathouse car parked at that exit near the lake. Zip zoom bah! At the lake at 4.

I have a DISGUSTING infestation of ants in my boathouse car. Vacuumed up a swarm this evening. Will go out again in a bit for another attack with the vac.

What makes ants swarm? Are they living in my car? Are they hatching from eggs? Are they entering my car at the lake from a nearby ant community? What in my car is so appealing? Besides food crumbs. LOL

I need strategies, people. Someone suggested a dish of vinegar. They are attracted to it, enter, and drown.

Since I've come inside, I have found some ants on me. Now I am bugging out like a crack addict.

Just returned from the WH - was in the Oval Office. Saw Krone (COS of Sen. Reid). He was there to patch up with Obama and Jack Lew. The polls show we are heading to a grand-slam victory over Romney. The latest swing states: 60% for the POTUS. Who cares for the GOP?

“This unlimited QE (quantitative easing) , buying mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and continuing operation twist has the implication of simply having asset prices go up and the money flows down to the Mayfair economy,” Faber said.

A Mayfair economy is one which benefits the wealthier and better off in society. Faber said this latest round of QE would not help the “man on the street”.

“QE helps rich people whose asset prices go up and whose net worth then increases but it doesn’t flow to the man on the street who is faced with higher costs of living with price rises. You just have a small economy that is booming but the majority of the economy is damaged by QE,” he said.

I am glad to see that a judge finally stood up for the collective bargaining rights that are clearly outlined in the US constitution. It's time for State legislatures to stop thinking they can just write laws - only judges know how to do that.